Mom's 80th Birthday

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FC: THIS IS YOUR LIFE | In Celebration of your 80th Birthday August 21, 2012 | Helen Woodfin | If you have a mom, there is nowhere you are likely to go where a prayer has not already been. ~Robert Brault

1: On Sunday, August 21, 1932, a beautiful baby girl was born to Frank and Marie Barajas. She was named Helen Marie Barajas She was their first child. | 1930's

3: I love my mother as the trees love water and sunshine - she helps me grow, prosper, and reach great heights. ~Terri Guillemets

5: A father is someone who carries pictures in his wallet where his money used to be . - unknown

6: A can of peas a day keeps the doctor away!

7: 1940's

8: One good mother is worth a hundred schoolmasters. - George Herbert

9: 1951

10: You'll always be the Queen of our hearts, Mom! | 1950's

11: In 1948, Helen Marie Barajas, the 16-year old Ruidoso beauty, would have been 'Rodeo Queen', but the bar she was representing, Central Bar & Grill, was raided by the State Police, (in fact, they had the whole town surrounded) for unlicensed gambling. In Helen's words, I lost because the State Police raided the whole town of Ruidoso. Everyone had slot machines. I was working behind the soda fountain, somebody'd get a notice and they'd holler out and the guys would scramble to get the slot machines down to the cellar. But the whole town was raided."

12: The Wedding of Helen Marie Barajas and John Douglas Kilgore May 21, 1951

16: Listen to your Mother.

17: 1960's | Don't trust anyone over 30. | Did someone say 'rice'?

20: Mother's hold their children's hands for a short while, but their hearts forever. Unknown | I can't help but laugh when I hear myself sounding like my mother! Jkg | Happy Memories